Joshua Stylman on Freedom Fighters’ Blind Spots

Pushback of the Week, June 8, 2025

Joshua Stylman on Freedom Fighters’ Blind Spots

Investor-entrepreneur, startup mentor, and writer Joshua Stylman has been “going to town” at his incisive and revelatory Substack.

His June 2 post titled “From Cow to Cloud: Two Systems, Two Futures” delivers two important messages that Catherine, too, has been steadily trying to communicate to freedom fighters: (1) financial transaction freedom is the linchpin upon which all other freedoms (such as food and health freedom) depend, and (2) solutions will come bottom-up, not top-down.

At a recent gathering of activists fighting for food and health freedom that Stylman attended,

“[M]ost people there understood food sovereignty and soil health, [but] when someone asked about what happens when they cut off our ability to transact—the financial control mechanisms that could shut down these farming operations overnight—there wasn’t as substantive a discussion with solutions as one would hope.”

Describing threats to financial transaction freedom—a freedom that farmers and their customers generally take for granted—Stylman points to the “master surveillance database” infrastructure currently under rapid construction by Palantir. He notes:

“This isn’t like previous database systems—it will combine tax filings, student debt, Social Security records, bank accounts, medical claims, and immigration status. No previous database system has ever centralized this much personal information across various federal agencies…. [T]his infrastructure enables programmable money and digital gulags—the technology for comprehensive behavioral control that makes Chinese social credit systems look quaint.”

Stylman observes that the would-be controllers count on people’s lazy tendency to opt for “convenience.” Systems like Palantir’s “don’t advance through force—they advance through utility.” In another recent post titled “The Invisible Leash,” Stylman describes tech giants’ steady march toward a “hidden architecture of subjugation,” which freedom fighters waiting for rescue from on high ignore at their peril. As Catherine and Future Science Series host Ulrike Granögger explained in a 2022 interview, control systems operate one person at a time—“which means that if we want to be free, we must also do so one person at a time.”

Stylman’s writings, including his recent Substack series on mind control (see assembled links at Solari’s collection of mind control resources) can help you see the risks around you and take action. We encourage subscribers to watch Catherine’s upcoming June 17 interview with Stylman on “The High-Tech Battle for Your Brain.”